Happy Birthday Riley

This weekend was just the party, today is the real birthday. How did this baby become...

...this little boy who looks so grown up?


And what did we ever do with ourselves before he came along?

Happy Birthday Riley. We love you, Gramma and Grampa

It Was Commissary Day

I know Tammy is going to be very jealous when she reads we went to the Commissary but maybe next month we can go on a Thursday. It was a very quick trip today. We got there early and were able to start shopping but Dan had to wait for the registers to open to pay for the soda while I was doing the food shopping. We were actually home by about 1000 and we never get done that early. Then of course there was the hour of putting food away.

Now that prices are going up at the stores around here it is even a better deal going over there. Most things haven't gone up much and being cheaper to start with really helps.

We stopped by to see Andy, Nikki and the kids. Wanted to see how Riley was doing and he was back to his normal self after his tumble yesterday. He does have a big mark on his forehead and a few miscellaneous scratches. He must have been feeling like he was the only one with bumps and bruises so he hit Kaleigh over the head with his new guitar and now she has a big red mark on her head.

This afternoon was filled with racing and football. Had some problems for a bit because it was raining so hard we weren't getting any reception but we didn't miss much.

Hope everyone had a good weekend and you're ready for your week to begin.

Happy Birthday Riley

Celebrated Riley's Birthday today. Had a good time, kind of crazy but we survived. His cake turned out great. Nikki got the dinosaur one from Publix, minus the volcano and the dinosaurs and then put on the jungle animal.




Then it was on to opening presents, we want to know if GG used super glue to wrap this present because for some reason Riley resorted to his teeth to try to open it. He was very cute about it.


He really got into the opening presents thing, can't wait until Christmas.




Here comes the cake, couldn't get him to blow out the candle and of course the ac came on and kept blowing it out for us.


Riley got one of the cupcakes, everything started our just fine. Take the monkey off the top and set it aside.


But then it went down hill from there, blue everywhere but he sure enjoyed the cupcake and would have eaten more if he could have found one.



The start of a new picture taking year for Riley and we have a resolution, more pictures of Riley and Momma together and this is a good start.



You may have to click on this one but I think someone was bored, good catch Andy on taking this picture.

All good things must come to an end and in this case it ended with a fall and a bonk to the head. I think there will be a goose egg to remember this day.

Some More...

Now that I've started, I just can't stop. Here are some more pictures from that Florida trip. Here we are in Saint Augustine we were all over the place here. Saw the old fort, Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum, the Sugar Mill and I'm sure lots of other things.

This is Mum and Tammy and I think that is me behind the sign, carrying the tradition of not being photographed.


Tammy in front of one of my favorite rides of all time, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. I was so disappointed when they closed it down.


Gramp and Kathi at the campground. The van that we did all our camping in and the tent that was one of the best buys Mum and Dad every made. Guess we didn't have any problems putting it up this time but the first time we set it up in Maine, now that is a story for another time.


Here we are opening our Christmas presents, I'm sure there was a little tree somewhere. Looks like everyone was getting just what they wanted.


Our first trip to Gatorland, this has always been one of our favorite places, we try to go every year.



Was this at Gatorland, I can't remember but I think it is the only place it could have been.



This was the Sugar Mill in Saint Augustine. Don't you love my hat. Gramp, Kathi, Mum, and me.


The entrance to Marineland, many years before Sea World made it's way to Florida.


What a trip that was. It is terrible when I start looking at pictures because I spend so much time and I don't realize how long until I glance at the clock and see an hour or more has gone by.

I'm going to have to dig into the slides again and start scanning. I know we probably have 3,000 - 4,000 slides and I have to look at each one and decide if I want to scan it. I would really like to scan them all but I don't think I have enough time left.

More Oldies but Goodies

After my last post Jeff asked if I knew how much tickets were back in 1971, well of course I do because I save everything. Here are a few of the things from our trip in Dec 71. As you can see we spent Christmas Day in the Park. Don't forget to click on the pictures so you can read everything.


There is no such thing as a Junior Ticket anymore, it Child 3-9 and Adult 10+. Now a one day, one park ticket is $79.88. Thank goodness we have Mum and Dad!



The tickets back then were the A thru E tickets and I don't have that handy as to what was what but this is how I made use of my tickets.


This shows we went in on the 25th of December and parked for $.50 now you are paying $12.00 to park.


Now on to the Oldies but Goodies.

Here are Kathi and I, I'm guessing it is a first day of school for me probably second grade because Kathi doesn't look like she is going to school.


Let's see if you see a trend emerging in the next three pictures. This is Tammy, me, and Dad.


Kim


Me, again.

Now I know where Chris gets it from, hiding his face for pictures.

If you look closely at this picture you can see why they moved to Florida, poor Mum looks like she is freezing.


Yet Dad seems to be just fine.

Of course the green house and it doesn't matter what color it is today, it will always be the green house.


I'm guessing this is Maine? Someone help me out. Kim just how long were your legs back then?


Just a normal day around the house, still catching up on computer stuff, it is almost as never ending as housework.

Guess What Today Is....

These might give you a clue.




....Walt Disney World opened 37 years ago today. I don't know when Mum and Dad told us that we would be going in December of that year but I'm sure once they did we were some very excited girls.

All these pictures were scanned from slides and not the best, I have learned more about scanning and will probably have to go back and redo some of the older scans.

Just a trip down memory lane.

My Day Started with a Broken ATM...

... and I was the one who broke it. Just trying to get some errands done early this week so I headed out to beat the Loomis truck to the ATM and deposit a check. Got there and already there were three cars ahead of me but they were in and out very quickly. I pulled in and started my transaction, put the card in, did my pin, chose my transaction type, chose the account it would go into. Then it was time to put the check in and things started whirring and little doors started closing and the screen went blank. At first it looked like it was just rebooting but then it was taking longer and longer. The lady behind me finally got out of her car and walked to the first ATM and did her business. I would have left but the machine had my card. Finally it came up with a message of temporarily out of service.

So home I went to call the bank, it was to early to go into the bank and the drive through wasn't open either. Called and got everything all straighten out and I should have a new debit card in 5 - 7 days. Plus she told me I could stop by the bank and they would give me a temporary card. But I decided to just do the drive through and deposit the check and get cash back. Then make sure I have Dan with me this weekend whenever I need to spend money because we can still use his debit card. At first I thought I was going to have to write a check when I went shopping this morning but then I thought of the cash back. I think this year I have only written about 3 checks on this account. But it is now all taken care of and I continued with my day.

Today was my day to do back-ups of everything. Did June and Sept pictures, don't know why June wasn't backed up already but it wasn't and now it is. Also copied all of September's blog entries into a word document and backed that up.

Also got a head start on laundry because we have a very busy weekend coming up.

Then it was time to head over and watch the kids. Kaleigh had just started eating so I relieved Nikki so she could get ready for school. Then Riley decided he wasn't ready for his nap.

Put the Lion King dvd in to watch, trying to get him ready for our trip to Disney. Think he would enjoy the Lion King show at Animal Kingdom.

Even though Riley's eyes are very hard to describe they certainly are beautiful, pretty, handsome, just right for him.


Here he is watching The Lion King, he really likes the songs, even when I sang along.


Kaleigh was a smiley girl, she is just like Riley and smiles with her whole body.


She was enjoying being on her back and playing with the toys. They need to make the music play longer on the one toy. After this she was ready for her nap. She went right down. Unlike someone else.


This is what I found about 15 minutes after I put Riley in for his nap and I started to hear noises so I went to check. Guess he needed some company. I put it all away and he finally went to sleep.


Kaleigh woke up and was ready for her bottle, she drank the whole thing and was falling asleep again so I put her back in bed and didn't hear a peep from her. Andy got home from work and I was giving him the run down and said Kaleigh was sleeping. So he went in to take his shower and what does he find but a wide awake little girl who was just looking around. I had put her down about 45 minutes earlier so I don't know if she slept or not, but she was very quiet.